My phone has acted up occasionally to receive calls but if you reckoned they wouldve kept trying to ring then they wouldve got me eventually.
Either way, that's it, cattle killed, 9 days later letter sent restricted with possible lesion, same day unrestricted, with non tb spot On lung.
A few years ago my vet rang and told me that it was on the dept system that my herd was locked the vet's are somehow linked to the dept system so I rang the dept and after speaking to several vet's nobody could explain why I was locked the nearest I got was that someone must have pressed a button by mistake it took many phone calls to get the restriction lifted by the next day, they can be strange to figure out at times
It was advertised as modern farmyard and facilities. There's feck all there. The other farm of 34 acres had a superior yard. I can't see much of a return unless you have other sheds of your own to go with it or unless you are willing to pack animals into a hole of sh1t and work for nothing yourself.
Renting is one thing, trying to stock it is another. Expensive this year, if you are trying to buy. And slow if you are growing organically.
Supporting another fellas family before you make a euro for yourself.
I saw a documentary the slaves that built the pyramids got one day off a week, and part payments of beer. Its backwards some of us are going
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only person that watches slave programmes and think that it doesn't look too bad.
plenty big dairy operations up that way that wouldn’t have any issues stocking it. If something similar came up near me I’d drop the contract rearing
Some great quality land around that part of Roscommon. They’d have as long as grazing season as any one. Your gripe with the yard is nonsense imo. The yard is a bonus. It’s the size of the block of land that’s the biggest attraction. You’d probably hold 120 weanlings in those sheds. That’s no small amount of stock
Break down where you would put the 120 weanlings in those modern facilities for me. Also taking into account silage and slurry storage.
there is a 4 bay double slatted shed there - 10/pen and a 4 bay lean two with another 10/pen. Weaklings don’t create that much slurry. Plenty of places set that made more money and no shed of any sorts with it
I couldn’t give 2 hoots what the auctioneer calls it, that’s his job. There’s facilities there which are worth money. You’d get nothing around me locally with any sort of slatted shed on it
I was tired this morning when alarm went off, thinking a day off would be nice to recharge. The reality is no morning off till mid April hopefully a night away before breeding starts. And listening on the radio during the week how some people are calling for a 4 day week!
What is it they say. Do something you enjoy and you won't work a day in your life.
Well, I hope when I hang up my clusters that there will be plenty people interested in leasing my place. It wouldn't appeal to me.
There's likely about €20k worth of entitlements with it, leaving the land and yard at about €180/ac which is about the price of it. So not expensive by any means.
Ya, I kinda of agree with that. Everyone dreading Mondays, talking about hump day, excited Friday to get a bit of time off. And dreading work again Sunday evening.
But on the other hand I heard a commentator once say that it's a load of sh1t. It is hard work, you need to get paid and you need to be fairly treated.
I'm wondering, have you help at home, hired or otherwise, because it makes a mighty difference. The one man band, where every job is waiting for him, (especially this time of year) would probably steer away from more work.
I can sense the milk price of 70c and high mart prices, is starting to affect fellas confidence again. The 38c a litre days are after leaving people's memory.
But if there is 20k of payments going with it, then its not bad, you would not get it for that in munster
Me and and my parents. Had bits of help other springs but none this year yet. Dad is 74. Does a good bit of tractor work, diet feeding drawing bales etc keeps the auto feeder filled with powder and handy stuff like that, hasn’t milked a cow in a fair few years now and or fed a calf, I’d do all that. He’d be kept going but it’s at his own pace Mam does the running around if I need something but that’s nothing major but still a good help. Try get something delivered if I can or work it in when she’s going somewhere. My wife is very keen on farming too, that’s probably how I get away with doing long hours tbh. She would give a hand if needed, would milk during summer etc but we currently have a 3 week old new born so not possible this spring 😀
@GrasstoMilk
Congrats. a busy few weeks for you so.
You should keep the merits of FTAI in mind when you go again 😜😂
IIf You had a young farmer involved he get another 7k ish in the YF top up. The numbers on that place would work for a beef enterprise not to mind a milk one. With beef the killer woukd be stock prices at present
I wouldn't be surprised if the entitlements were seperate, ie to be done on a seperate deal.
Land is making €400/acre freely enough now
Congratulations, that's great news.
The reality is that nobody really wants to work anymore and they will not take on responsibility for anything .yes I know and I agree that there's exceptions to this statement but they are very very much in the minority
Congratulations great news 👏
you could say the same thing about allot of drystock farmers aswell.
In a similar vein, I appreciate my off-farm job a lot more now than I did a few weeks ago!
Herself helps with the calves here, which is great, but the buck stops with me on every job - big and small. There is some difference in the level of responsibility between farm and off-farm jobs.
How's the milking going now @Siamsa Sessions
People used to tell me it must be great to be your own boss now. Reality is I'm the worst boss I ever had.
Slowly improving thankfully. Milking six at a time these days - huge leap forward!
I'm still tying up a couple of heifers legs but the rest are grand. They walk in OK now but I need to get the feeders set up so I can get the first 2-3 to walk to the front and not stop at every trough they pass walking in. Also need to get the other side of parlour cleared (bit of a dumping ground at the moment) and the troughs up on the wall there.
Bord Bia inspection next week and I've a bit of tidying up to do in the dairy for that. BVD tags gone off since last Friday so I'll be able to offload a few calves once they're back.
Still milking once-a-day. I won't switch to twice until next week when, all going well, there's 10 calves gone, the inspection is passed and I've milk going into the tank.
Thou a big part of me is tempted to stay at once-a-day for this year to better manage my time at the off-farm job (and the family!).
You wouldn't want to be farming just for the money. Get buzz from the breeding, machinery and making improvements every year.
Ya any farm or farmers runs into bother fairly quick when the joy /interest/happiness goes
If you have milk left over, you could turn it in to yogurt milk, it would last a couple of weeks for feeding calves and is a great help, when starting the tank as they can all go in except the very fresh calvers.
